2015-1 January

Locally owned & operatedDelicious artisanal olives made locallySpice up a recipe or dress up a cocktailGreat for entertaining, snacking and giftingSold at “ABC Fine Wines” and gourmet food & fine wine stores throughout central Florida

Issue1 Volume4

Happy New Year! We hope
your holidays were pleasant. We spent a magical week in Colorado Springs visiting Steve’s daughter
and her 3 children enjoying lots of snow, games and quality family time.
Santa was very good to us both this year. I love the New Year, a

chance to
start again, refresh, renew and rebuild. Thank you for your friendship and
support during our 1st year of business. We learned a lot, met a lot of people,
and have a lot of ideas about how to move forward in 2015. Our website is
growing, our Facebook page has a record number of followers, we are dabbling
with You Tube & Instagram, our recipe file is expanding, we now have over
20 olive flavors including the craft beer varieties, we have joined 2 local
business organizations, and we have several new festivals on our calendar this
year. So 2015 is shaping up nicely.

New Recipe - Italian Frittata with Steve’s Gourmet Olives

A frittata is an Italian style omelet, or a crust-less
quiche. Like a casserole, you can put almost anything in it. It can be served hot or cold, for breakfast,
lunch or dinner. It can be dressed up or dressed down, and it keeps very well
in the refrigerator for several days. For those of you who resolve to increase
protein & decrease carbohydrate intake for the New Year, frittatas are a
great way to achieve that goal. Print off the recipe from our Recipe tab or follow this link to view the You Tube video

We are now collaborating with 3 local breweries – Cigar City
Brew Pub in Carrollwood, Darwin Brewing Co in Bradenton and Green Bench Brewery in St Pete.
We use our Spicy Pirate recipe, one of our best sellers, and replace the wine
in the recipe with their craft beers. The results are surprisingly good, even
to us! Each flavor is unique and
delicious, and quite different than the original wine version. Right now these
olives are sold exclusively at local markets, but look for retail shelf
availability in the New Year.

New Retail Location

We are pleased to announce an expansion of our product line into the Central Sarasota Farmers Market at 4748 South Beneva Rd, Sarasota, FL 34233. This is a year round farmers market every Saturday, rain or shine, from 8 am until 1 pm. Along with fresh produce from local farms and hand-crafted items from local vendors, they have a General Store which offers a selection of locally-made sauces, jams, jellies, oils and now Steve's Gourmet Olives.

In order to continue building our social media presence, we
are offering a free gift! Bring a friend to any tasting event and add them to
our email distribution list and you will win a pair of free wine glass charms.
I personally make these wine charms, and they come in many fun designs to
accompany the olives. The best advertising is the support of loyal customers
sharing our product with others. Please follow us on Facebook, Instagram &
You Tube. Thanks for your help!

January also brings us to the beginning of a new Gasparilla season
here in Tampa Bay! We love Gasparilla, the annual
pirate-themed festival that is Tampa's unique version of Mardis Gras. We run the Gasparilla 15K each year and we are both active in the Krewe of
Pandora. Our float is #7 in the parade line-up this year, and we are super excited to perhaps catch a little TV coverage. Look for special Gasparilla promotions inside ABC Fine Wine locations throughout Tampa Bay. Argh! Enjoy the new Frittata recipe, join us at as many of the events as you
can, tell your friends about us, and we hope to see you out on the parade route
this year.